The Mature generation and Baby Boomers
 

This article gives the authors summary of six generations now living in this country.

Many of us who were born before 1945 were imprinted by parents who survived the depression and lived through the second world war. Those born past 1945, called Baby Boomers will continue to have ten thousand a day retiring for the next thirteen years.

See what you think about this article; I don't think anything can really catch or illustrate the highly individual people it is my pleasure to know who live here in The Villages. I am learning that WHERE we grew up also brands us in many ways.

What say you?
The Six Living Generations In America

"With the advent of computers and web based learning, children leave behind toys at younger and younger age. It’s called KGOY-kids growing older younger, and many companies have suffered because of it, most recognizable is Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls. In the 1990’s the average age of a child in their target market was 10 years old, and in 2000 it dropped to 3 years old. As children reach the age of four and five, old enough to play on the computer, they become less interested in toys and begin to desire electronics such as cell phones and video games."

I don't know how to react. Playing pretend, using you imagination, dolls, puppets, and building legos was big in my house. They don't mention playing sports. I suppose you use your imagination, learn and solve problems using technology. I have to mull this over.

It nailed it!

Yes that article pretty much says it all. I was born "just" before the "boomers"...I can relate to both 'generations'. My parents were born as The Greatest Generation and I certainly have their values for sure.

Looks like cell phones have become "the mind control helmets" depicted in the Buck Rogers serial starring Buster Crabbe--total focus and oblivious to the outside world around them

Even though only a couple of years can separate the Mature /Silent generation from the Baby Boomer generation there is a pretty noticeable difference between the generations. Not bad or good, just noticeable.

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Most baby boomers are spoiled little brats. Hence the name baby boomers.. now, some think they are bad? Nothing compared to baby boomers kids/kids which are twice as spoiled, which are the ultimate do Nothing kids except live at home and play on the cell phone or on the computer violent video games which alter the brain from reality. Small portions are so far gone they want to be popular and bring gun to school and make name for their themselves with they're pathetic altered brain, which was influenced by TV, movie theater, and video games. Now, you just wait if they can produce and they're kids not raised by grandparents or the state, you haven't seen nothing yet.

The baby boomers...I was born in 1942 ahead of them by a few years. I feel much more an "Ike" - silent generation - and recall as a college senior when incoming freshmen were pot smokers. Everything really changed after around 1965 which was the peak SAT score year. It went downhill thereafter in many, many ways, the dumbing down of school curricula, cultural disintegration, debasement of ethics and morality and much, much more.

I have a long time friend in my neighborhood who is now 86 years old. He grew up during the depression, while growing up along with his brother spent several years in an orphanage until his father took him home after regaining the financial ability to do so. He worked hard his whole life and owned a successful local retail business. He has three children now in their early to mid sixties. HE IS PAYING THE MORTGAGES FOR TWO OF THEM, AGED 65 AND 64!...as they are unable (unwilling?) to do so. One has a bachelors degree from Stanford which my friend no doubt paid for!

Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy loaf-
Ers!

And while we're on the subject
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue
Kids!
But they still do just what they want to do
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

[MAE]
Kids!
I've tried to raise you the best I could
Kids!
All the things I've done were for your own good
Kids!
Can't you once appreciated how I've sacrificed
Working, slaving, scrimping, saving pennies?
And livin' with your father
Kids!
No one knows the burden I've had to bear
(And in my condition!)
Kids!
I'm a poor, sick woman, and does he care?
Ha! Go on, go on, and kill me
That's what it's coming to
When a mother has kids like you

:shrug: Painting my house soon..... where could I buy a "Broad Brush" like the one you use?;)


:read: paint with a broad brush = To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations. :icon_bored:

Yes I'm good with brush? Can even spot them 110 plus golfers:pepper2:

As tomwed says.......Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.

I sense many may feel whatever generation they are from was the best. Food for thought - the baby boomers were raised by the silent mature generation. Thus as many believe your value system is a product your environment (like area of country as only one of many attributes) is not your value system a product of your parents. So if you are one to believe each generation has got worse than the previous generation don't they only have themselves to blame ? For the record I don't prescribe to the thought that one generation is better than or worse than another. There is good and bad in every generation.

so what you're say every parent is to blame from Adam and Eve.

:agree: Thank you.